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Not sure about code quality (what I’ve seen of Jellyfin seems fine-ish?) but I can attest that I tried probably a half-dozen times over a span of years (from wh
by hotnfresh 3y ago
Not sure about code quality (what I’ve seen of Jellyfin seems fine-ish?) but I can attest that I tried probably a half-dozen times over a span of years (from when it was still XBMC, up to about 3-4 years ago) to use Kodi, and I don’t think my watching:screwing-with-the-system ratio ever got much better than 1:1, and nobody else around would use it, after perhaps a tentative and disastrous initial attempt.
I’ve been using Jellyfin for about three years. Spouse, kids, and friends use it without difficulty. My watching:working ratio is probably like 50:1 (mine personally, not combined for all users) or better, and I don’t do it all on easy mode (I’m including time learning and administrating ZFS pools, for instance)
- mrb 3y agoI agree, Kodi requires constant maintenance and tweaking. Jellyfin seems better overall(?) But I'm really frustrated with this transcoding issue. Or the fact it's incapable of DTS 5.1 passthrough on GCCWGTV (even their site https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/codec-support/ https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/codec-support/ says Jellyfin has been tested with DTS mono only, not DTS 5.1).
- hotnfresh 3y agoI do kinda cheat by ensuring I never need to transcode. Clients are AppleTV or iOS devices, mostly, and support every video or audio codec I’ve got. My server’s too weak to transcode more than about DVD resolution videos at live-video speeds, is why I have to do it that way.
- mrb 3y agoDo you have media with DTS (not Dolby) 5.1 audio tracks, and can Jellyfin pass it through from the AppleTV to your TV or A/V receiver?
- hotnfresh 3y agoProbably? I’ve got and have watched a lot of stuff, and have a reeeaaallly big screen so favor files large enough that including raw audio streams from the source is fairly common. Lemme check my watched-videos… Got one I must have watched at DTS-HD 5.1. But maybe the “HD” makes a difference. Oh, here, DTS 5.1, no HD. This one definitely worked, I watched it like a month ago. Only audio track available on this video, so no chance I used a different one. I’ve run into exactly one problem with my set-up, and I think it was some bad interaction between a particular frame-rate/resolution combo and my projector. Temporarily tweaking a tvOS setting (telling it not to switch video output to match sources) fixed it. Only seen it happen one time. I do have a 7.1 audio receiver. Dunno if that matters for reproducing the issue.
- evanreichard 3y agoSo I have an Apple TV 4K, but I don't use the official client. I use Infuse. The Apple TV 4K does not support DTS passthrough, but Infuse will decode DTS on the device itself and pass it through to the receiver as uncompressed lossless multi-channel LPCM. I.e. the server is not transcoding in any capacity The biggest hurdle for Plex, Jellyfin, etc is the variability of the devices and the nuances around what they do and don't support codec wise. Your experience with GTVWCC does surprise me, though. What should be happening is "Direct stream", where it transcodes the audio and just "repackages" the video. I just tested in Firefox w/ a video that has 5.1 DTS audio. It transcoded the audio but just repackaged the video. It does seem to have done it all at once though, so the CPU was pegged for about 2 minutes while it transcoded the full 2h30m DTS track. Afterwards CPU was idle while still watching.